We are pleased to introduce you to DCReport, Cultural Daily’s new sibling publication. DCReport was founded six years ago by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston and editor and reporter David Crook as a non-profit public service, to provide a voice for fact-based journalism and opinion about our government. Since then, DCReport has carved …
A decade ago, when he was host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart was about to interview then-US president Barack Obama. Before he had a chance, Stewart abruptly stopped mid-sentence and asked the equally dignified and hip world leader to wait in the wings. With one hand holding his earpiece, and the other held out …
Shock and Awe: a Reflection on Manipulation and the Media Read More »
Smut’s on my mind. A chunk of that I blame on Covid-19’s shelter-in-place. What on earth to do? Read Love in the Time of Cholera? Watch Schitt’s Creek? Pull up a song by Tom Lehrer? The latter, obviously. A second slice of blame I tag to playwright Donald Freed. Saturdays I hang online with the …
Propaganda has escaped the internet, it’s running amok in my neighborhood (and yours!). Helicopters and sirens and camouflage, oh my! A popular local hiking spot near me was closed for Covid–19, then reopened, then closed—“because of the riots.” Covid testing was unavailable, and then it was free, and then it was shut down— “because of …
Hollywood in Place: The Velocity of Discourse Where I Live, Part 2 (June 1, 2020)* Read More »
We know there’s a lot of false information to be found on the internet, but sometimes, it’s legitimately difficult to tell if something really is false. Enter the deepfake — computer-synthesized video or audio recordings that look and sound indistinguishable from the real thing. Media experts have already sounded the alarm, afraid that these deepfakes …
Deepfakes: How Are They Good, and How Are They Bad? Read More »
1. Force For Good (and Profit) I never meant to consume so much news. News, The News, The Media, lost its place as a Thing Over There that I could pick up or set aside according to my own priorities and became a firehose in 2016, a weapon to bombard the public and whose velocity …
I read the news today, oh boy. The crisis worsened. People died needlessly. The White House issued denials. Then I read about love that was Brilliant Blue. I watched people who Dare to Dance in Public. I discovered art that is magnificent. Creative work holds vast power to shift our paradigm from fear to pleasure. …
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